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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (119769)	12/27/2000 10:08:47 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<You not only challenge the institution of slavery, but the principal economic system that WAS the South. To expect the powers-that-be to give up on that was truly foolish< What was foolish was for the slavocracy to plunge the whole nation into a civil war over an institution that was neither morally justifiable or economically viable. Realize that EVERY single plan proposed to deal with the "institution" of slavery was rejected by the very people that started the rebellion. For years it was proposed that there be a gradual emancipation such that nobody could be "born into slavery" and that it would thus phase itself out. This was consistently and categorically rejected by Davis and people like him. That they fought to save the wealth that they had inherited and built on the backs of slaves was to be expected. That their whole system was to be destroyed was to be expected, too.